Sentence examples for local expenditure from inspiring English sources

Village trustees quickly approved a local expenditure of $10,000 to begin design work.

The central government now tries to limit local expenditure by imposing penalties on high-spending authorities through the grant system.

However, the NAO found it had not properly considered how forces would use the devices, nor the amount of local expenditure needed.

On the average, municipalites revalue every seven to eight years, although many go much longer, according to the State and Local Expenditure and Revenue Policy Commission.

However, it emerged that the activists had been campaigning on behalf of specific Conservative MPs, rather than the party generally, leading to claims that the spending should have been recorded as local expenditure.

The financial stake of a federal taxpayer in the outcome of a lawsuit challenging an allegedly unlawful federal expenditure is not qualitatively different from that of a state or a municipal taxpayer attacking a local expenditure.

Public spending was broad-based, with even state and local expenditures increasing for the first time in a year.

Federal, state and local expenditures for police, prisons and courts increased every year in the 1990's, even as crime fell during the decade.

Many tax credits (a percentage of a film crew's local expenditures) exceed the filmmaker's total tax liability to that state.

Government spending related to smoking and the abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs reached $468 billion in 2005, accounting for more than one-tenth of combined federal, state and local expenditures for all purposes, according to a new study.

The report, Comparability of State and Local Expenditures Among Schools Within Districts, is based on data collected from 84,000 public schools in districts that had to report salary expenditures to receive emergency federal money under the 2009 economic stimulus law, which channeled $100 billion to public education.